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Article: Cladistic tests of monophyly and relationships of biostratigraphically significant conodonts using multielement skeletal data –Lochriea homopunctatus and the genus Lochriea

Publication: Palaeontology
Volume: 55
Part: 6
Publication Date: November 2012
Page(s): 1279 – 1291
Author(s): Ayse Atakul-Özdemir, Mark A. Purnell and Nicholas J. Riley
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ATAKUL-ZDEMIR, A., PURNELL, M. A., RILEY, N. J. 2012. Cladistic tests of monophyly and relationships of biostratigraphically significant conodonts using multielement skeletal data –Lochriea homopunctatus and the genus Lochriea. Palaeontology, 55, 6, 1279–1291.

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